deed. To secure him from outrage, Achmet thought of forming this bower, as the Berebers would never look so high for objects of pillage. I believe you know how dangerous it is for all who live under the tyranny of Barbarossa to possess wealth. Achmet therefore sent me from time to time to deposit his gold, silver, and jewels at the foot of these trees. In no country in the known world is there so much treasure inhumed as in Barbary; and it is wonderful that known fact has not stimulated the avidity of European conquerors by profession."

"Ah, Godfrey!" said I, "now you are endeavouring, as usual, to steal me from myself by the charms of your conversation, but I am, I must be miserable."

"My love," replied Godfrey," beware of tempting Providence by self-created woes. Do you forget how many of your sex are outcasts of society, not from misfortune but through guilt; and they are excluded from all the rights of humanity, and even from recollection, unless some penal offence creates momentary horror; but it is within the limits of probability that we may be restored to our country and friends."

Our

arts. My needle afforded frequent occupation, and provident arrangements for the rainy months helped to fill up our time. Clustering grapes hung over our habitation, and descending to lower branches of the main tree, we could step from one to another to cull figs, dates, pomegranates, and all the spontaneous productions of the climate. When this dear girl saw the light I quite regained the buoyant vivacity natural to my temper. Nursing, rearing, and educating her in all the knowledge our circumscribed boundary could furnish, gladdened our hearts, and Eustace seemed to have acquired a new being.

"All this while we had not discovered the fate of the hermit. One day Eustace, bounding from tree to tree, with a basket about his neck, gathering fruits, observed a human figure upon the margin of the river, lower down than we had ventured to proceed in our morning walks. Godfrey went immediately in the same direction, and we supposed that in performing his oblations the hermit had been seized by a fit, and could not return to his bower. God frey and Eustace interred the dried shrivelled corse next morning.

"Fifteen years rolled away. My hus"My husband's unremitting tenderness band made many journies to the north ou reconciled me to our strange condition. one of our camels. How miserable was I We never descended to the earth but near always until he returned, and how disapthe dawn of day, to draw water from a pointed that no possibility of getting back river close to the wood, and to collect fruits to Europe appeared. The last excursion for the rainy season, or to milk the goats brought joyful tidings-soon, soon to be that had belonged to the hermit. contrasted with sorrow. My dear Godtassayees did not forsake us; they shewed frey, the light of my soul, was to remove many signs of anxiety for our morning defor ever from this earth. I saw him greatly scent, and when a young one increased our fatigued, but he could not be hindred from stock the dam gave us milk. When the exertions to prepare for our departure, lest cold seasons set in they sought a milder we might be too late in arriving at Tunis, region, but returned with the spring. where the great Emperor was expected to Achmet was of the race of the Caliphs, and chastise the infidels. Eustace saved his we distinguished our tassayees by the adopted father the most severe part of the green caparison to which their first master labour; he disinterred the treasures, and gave them a right. Indeed the camel is a raised all the heaviest loads on our camels: sacred animal to all Mussulmen, and even we were ready to set out next day. In the the Berebers would not attempt to detain evening, as I sat beside the loved partner any one but their own property. We pass. of my joys and disquietudes, he laid his ed the day in pious exercises and improving head on my breast, put this paper in my discourse, and in teaching little Eustace to hand, and spoke no more. I tried to reread in my Bible; which the generous cover him, but his noble spirit had ascendAchmet purchased for me from the pirates. ed on high. We had all enjoyed uninter › Godfrey made baskets and other utensils, rupted health; salubrious breezes moand instructed Eustace in those homely "derated the summer heats, warm cloathing

Mighty Emperor!" continued Mrs. Godfrey, falling on her knees with uplifted hands, "mighty Emperor! my days are almost numbered; swear to me by the God of battle, the God that hath prospered thy arms, swear to protect my child and her destined spouse, and to restore her to her own country, where she may become the lawful wife of Eustace."

excluded the damp or cold, and far below, thousand times; and going where Eliza our elevated bower the death-spreading || beth reposed, stood with folded arms waitshiume fell to us innoxious. All this I said ing her awakening, to soften the sad intelto myself, as half distracted I kissed the ligence she must receive. I need not atcold forehead, the cheeks, and hands of my tempt to pourtray her affliction, nor should beloved. Eustace saw me drop the paper; I now yield to my own. he took it up, and observed written on the outside-To be read immediately. My daughter had fallen asleep, overcome by fatigue in preparing for our migration. In those moments of silent petrifying anguish, I forgot even her. Eustace read the paper, dated at Tunis. My dear husband tells me he feels his end draw near; and intreats and exhorts me, if he dies in the grove, to leave his remains there. He enforces as a Jast request, that we shall go without delay to Tunis. Reminds me that if the Emperor removes before our arrival, we must die in exile; and Eustace and Elizabeth, fondly attached, cannot be joined in lawful wedlock. He desires that no consideration shall prevent their union if we can procure for them the rites of the church, as their primitive ideas and habits, were best suited for each other. Eustace kissed the paper a

The Emperor plighted his royal word. Mrs. Godfrey, Eustace, and Elizabeth were seut to England with their wealth. Mrs. Godfrey learned that her parents did not long survive her elopement; she pined în compunctious recollections, and the marriage of Eustace and Elizabeth was soon followed by the funeral of their mother. || Calamities in various forms are inseparable from filial disobedience. B. G.

months every jar becomes mouldy and I get

TO TIMOTHY HEARWELL, ESQ. SIR, I have the misfortune of being mar-rid of them. ried to one of those bustling females who "You are so fond of pickled mushrooms," are generally termed good managers and my wife says to me, "that I have taken excellent economists; now the economy of care to have enough for the whole winter.” my rib almost ruins me; and I begin always | The first bottle we open is really delicious, to tremble at the approach of autumn. but at length they taste flat and disagree"Come," my wife says, " let us begin to able, and become mouldy in their turn, she lay in our stock before the winter sets in." thought she might save purchasing the best wine vinegar, she is determined this shall not happen again next year.

The first thing then she undertakes is to make preserves, which sometimes, by having too quick a fire under them, acquire a disagreeable taste by being burnt; it is, she says, but a trifling accident which will befall the best preservers. A fresh quantity of sugar is then applied, which augments the expence, it is true, but then they can be eaten by those who are not too daiuty, and if the children do not chuse to eat them at breakfast, they shall have dry bread. Next comes the time for preserving da

I have twenty bushels of potatoes now in my cellar; and this valuable root is certainly of infinite service in a large family; but they have already began to grow, and many of them have become too spungy to be of any use. That, she says, is owing entirely to the season.

Owing to the prodigious quantity of grapes this year, my wife delights herself with the idea of having some capital wine of her own making. She made some last year, and I must say she acquitted herself very well; and some sweet raisin wine she

made was so exquisite, that all our friends and neighbours were continually coming to drink, it: they, emptied several bottles of her raspberry wine, which would have been excellent, if it had not tasted so strong of molasses, and on which account she had been obliged to add a quantity of brandy and fine sugar. However, the little stock of wine we had proposed to save for ourselves this approaching winter is already more than half drank out by our obliging visitors, who are all eager to taste it, and beg the recipe for manufacturing the same themselves.

I have made a calculation of the expences attending all our provisions for the winter, and I find I have not enough money to serve me for a month. But I dare not tell my wife so, for she will be sure to prove me in the wrong and declare that her system of economy is the best in the world. ANDREW SUPPLE.

TO TIMOTHY HEARWELL, ESQ. SIR-Prior to my requesting of you to resolve some doubts relative to divorce, I must beg leave to inform you wheuce originated my anxiety to discuss the subject with myself.

Over the eastern gate of Agra is the following înscription :~" the first year of the reign of Julef, two thousand married couple applied to the magistrate, to obtain a separation, and the Emperor, indignant, abolished divorce. In the subsequent year, there were in Agra three thousand marriages less; seven thousand adulteries more; three hundred women burnt for poisoning their husbands; seventy-five men empaled for having murdered their wives; and amougst the most peaceable families the furniture destroyed amounted to at least 3,000,000 rupees. The Emperor re-established divorce."

and morality in a country like ours, where
our wives are

"Fair as chaste, as chaste as fair."
With some few exceptions, however. In
this latter case, a divorce should almost in-
variably take place; yet I must grieve
doubly when I reflect that evident adultery
is the only cause, sine qua non, as it is called.
If the motion were brought in before me,
I would vote against husbands receiving
damages; for it might happen, in some in-
stances, that prompted by such a prospect,
some husbands would neglect their wives,
and this neglect be conducive to expose the
weaker sex to the infringement of the
seventh article in the Decalogue. In the
second place, I deem it an improper lenity
shown to the divorced adulteress to allow
her to resume the possession of the property
which she had renounced by becoming a
wife: that should be forfeited, with the
deduction of a moderate pension, not to
the husband, I repeat it, but to the chil-
dren if any, and in default thereof to the
crown, or to the extinguishment of the
national debt. I should not wonder, by the
bye, if this regulation were adopted, as the
said liquidation being much forwarded ou
the return to England of the many thou-
sand emigrants, not to mention Italy, but
from France alone, where gallantry and in-
trigue are known for ages past to be at the
order of the day, and so much so, that
they are frequently introduced in thea-
trical pieces, with general applause. With
regard to the crafty seducer, for such is oc-
casionally to be met with, I should think
him very well off though he were sen
tenced to surrender one half of his fortune
to be distributed amongst the charitable
institutions, from the establishment of which
so many useful members of society are be
nefited neither would in this case the gay
Lothario be thought to be dealt by too se-
verely, who, hundreds of times, previously
to his suit being granted, had solemnly de-
clared that he would willingly sacrifice all
he was possessed of in this world, and even
his life, if he could but gain the affections
of the adorable object. By this means
great good would accrue from great evil.
Some tender-hearted advocates perhaps will
argue,
that the lady's income, by all means,
should be made proportionate to her birth

Many people might be liable to suppose, from a perusal of the above, that divorce is a wise political measure, well calculated to prevent the different enormities therein enumerated. At first I was of that opinion myself; but upon second thoughts it occurred to me that, agreeable to the adage-no cause, no effect-a law, which the dissolution of morals rendered indispensable in Persia, might prove inimical to social order

and rank in society?' to those let me retort,, a licence to a similar humiliation? This

that, if wealth and titles have been the due reward of the virtues and illustrious deeds of a long list of ancestors, she who on the reverse becomes notorious on account only of her sporting in the paths of vice, is no more to be considered as a descendant of that honourable race, than the weeds in a corn-field are a portion of the luxuriant primary support of the human species.

formality being gone through, could not the ring be pulled off the offender's finger by the parish clerk or beadle, and be finally suspended in the vestry by the clergyinan, who would then pronounce the dissolution of the former union. The fees here are rated, and within every body's reach.ng. >So far it will be acknowledged I hope, that enough was done for punishment and example; neither will it be denied but a door should always be left open to repentance: the delinquent above alluded to, were it only on account of the pangs of remorse which she has endured, must become an object of mercy; besides her public disgrace should be made everlasting. Let it be considered that by depriving her of the right of being the mother of a legi

If it be admitted that a divorce is to be obtained in some cases, is it not to be lamented, in a country where all are equal in the eye of the law, that none but the opulent can attempt to procure one, owing to the exorbitant charges of the limbs of the law? Or is it to be understood that delinquents are to be found only among the higher classes. This inconvenience, how-timate family, it would be robbing the ever, might easily be removed, if the legislature would but enact that the connubial bond should be untied by the same hand that had fastened it. Could not the divorce proposed to be announced three times, in the same manner as the intended|| male to a state of respectability. Hornq sik marriage had been proclaimed from the * HUMANUSS pulpit, subjecting those who had procured

country, the riches whereof partly consists in its population. 1 therefore will be heartily thankful to yourself, Sir, or to any of your correspondents, who would suggest the means of restoring the unfortunate fe

TOPOGRAPHICAL MUSEUM.-No. XXIV.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRË.

NORTHAMPTON.—This town is finely situated on an eminence, gently sloping to the river: the streets are strait and handsomely built: few towns can boast such a market-place; this is a real ornament to Northampton.

The church of the Holy Sepulchre is supposed to have been built exactly after the model of that at Jerusalem, by the Knights Templars. The imitative part is round, with a nave issuing from it.

St. Peter's church is a very singular building. Two corners of the tower are ornamented with three round pillars. Above these are two, and above them one; all gradually less than the others. The middle of the tower is ornamented with small round arches carved with zig-zag work. The advowson of this church was given by Edward III. to the hospital of St. Catharine, near the Tower, in London, and still continues under its patronage.

The County Infirmary is neither beautiful nor magnificent in outward appearance,TM but the subscription which supports it does infinite honour to the province, as it evinces the great benevolence of its inha bitants. The County-Hall' is a very handd some building, and the jail is situated a short distance from the Sessions-House. The Town-Hall is a very ancient building, in which the corporation transacts business. Northampton was incorporated by Henry II.; and Henry III. gave it the power of chusing anually a mayor and two bailiffs, to be elected by all the freemen; but Henry VII. ordered, by charter, that the mayor and his brethren, the late mayors, should name forty-eight persons of the inhabitants, with liberty of changing them as often as should be found requisite. Y

Northampton is among the most ancient of our boroughs. In the time of Edward I. it was one of nineteen trading towns which sent two members each. Every inhabi

tant, resident or not resident, free or not free, has still the liberty of voting: a cruel privilege!

||bridgeshire, together with a great revenue: the priory of Castle Hymel gave them footing in Northamptonshire, and they Between Hardingstone and Northamp came in for parcels of the appurtenance of ton, in 1460, Henry V. encamped with his St. Alban's, and Mount grace, in Yorkshire; insolent mobility, immediately before the the house of the friars, preachers in Exesanguinary battle of Northampton. Humble ter, with the revenues belonging to the proposals were sent by the Earl of March, || foundation; and finally, the estate about afterwards Edward IV. and Warwick. Covent-Garden, with a field adjoining Queen Margaret's answer breathed only contempt and scorn; for to her the answer must be attributed, and not to the mild and pusillanimous King Henry.

BEDFORDSHIRE.

called the Seven Acres, on which Longacre has been built, appurtenances to the Abbey of Westminster. How will papal superstition wonder that no signal judgment has overtaken the children of sacri. lege, when it is certain that no house in

WOBURN. A small town, rendered im-Britain has been more prosperous than that portant from having long been the estate of Russell? of the Dukes of Bedford: there is in it a free school, founded by Francis L. Earl of Bedford, and a charity school for thirty boys by Wriothesly, Duke of Bedford. The church was built by the last Abbot of Woburn: the steeple seems oddly disjointed from the church. The chancel has been elegantly fitted up by the grandfather of the present Duke. The pulpit is a fine piece of Gothic carving, most probably cœval with the Abbey. ·

At a short distance from the town was situated the Abbey, founded in 1145, by Hugh de Bolebec, a wealthy nobleman in the neighbourhood, and who peopled it with monks of the Cistercian order. The place prospered, and was found at the dissolation possessed of excellent revenues. The last Abbot, Robert Hobbs, was hanged at Woburn, for not acknowledging the King's supremacy. The monastery and its revenues, in 1547, were granted by Edward VI. to Lord Russell, soon after created Earl of Bedford by that young monarch. The immense fortune, even to this present time, originates from gifts of this nature; not only in Bedfordshire, but much of the|| Bedford property in Buckinghamshire is owing to this grant, and also the rich Abbey of Tavistock, and vast fortunes in Devonshire; which to render more extensive, that of Dunkeswell was added. The donation of Thornby Abbey gave to this family an amazing tract of fens in Cam

No. 117. ---Vol. XVIII.

The Duke of Bedford's mansion, at Wo◄ burn, is situated in a pleasant park, well wooded, but wanting water; the dams being much too conspicuous. The interior of the house is a treasure of fine paintings; amongst them is a sweet portrait of Lady Jane Seymour, the third wife to Henry VIII. Her person is elegant, but if the painter has done her justice, her counte nance is, by no means, beautiful. Also a full-length of Queen Elizabeth, with a fan of feathers in her hand, which she used at the wedding of Mrs. Anne Russell with Lord Herbert, having condescended to ac cept of the said fan as a present from a Dr. Puddin, at whose house her Majesty had stopped by the way.

AMPTHILL.—A small market town on a rising ground; famous for having been the residence of that injured Princess, Catharine of Arragon, who retired there during the period that her divorce was in agita tion: and hence she was cited to appear before the commissioners at Dunstable.

In Ampthill church is a monument to the memory of Richard Nicolls, Governor of Long Island. He was slain in the me morable engagement of May 28th, 1672, as he was attending his Royal Highness the Duke of York on board his ship. In this monument is preserved the very ball with which he was killed, a five or six pounder, and which is placed within the pediment, inlaid in the marble.

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